The NHTSA is in charge of the investigation of Toyota Motors. The investigation is about vehicles instantly speeding up, which now brought new details to the table. In fact, it comes straight from the mouth of the automaker’s executive vice president of research and development, Takeshi Uchiyamada. According to Automotive News, Uchiyamada has announced that a software bug has been detected that causes the crash data boxes in Toyota vehicles to provide incorrect rate of speed details.
Simply using crash data boxes
Toyota Motors previously admitted through the NHTSA investigation that crash data supplied by event data recorders (EDR) in certain automobiles was problematic, yet Uchiyamada has attempted to clarify that “We have been able to determine that there is no defect in the event data recorders.”. He was referring to the device’s mechanics, as the problem was a software bug that has reportedly been corrected. The EDR is there to record data related to position of throttle and during the time of collision, how much pressure was applied to the break. Speed is all crash data boxes are responsible for. This is what sources say.
No electronic glitches occurred, states Toyota
Toyota Motors got 3,000 unintended acceleration complaints. It reviewed them all and decided that there were no electronic errors causing the vehicle to accelerate. The automakers says that bad floor mats and driver error along with numerous other causes are what caused the problem. The NHTSA concurred regarding the lack of an electronics problem. Many do not know if the crash data box is reliable or not. It is still questioned. A Toyota Tundra pickup was driving at 170 mph in some crash data from 2007. This is why many are concerned about how valid the crash box is. Uchiyamada responded by saying a statement. He said, when it comes to rate of speed, “The EDR can’t be trusted”.
Toyota recalls
Automotive News reports that Toyota has recalled more than 13 million automobiles worldwide since November 2009. The U.S. by itself recalled about 10 million. These were mostly all related to accelerating when unintended.
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